Then-Mayor Ed McKenna in December, 2006. Former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna's car struck a pedestrian crossing East Front Street outside Riverview Medical Center last night, Red Bank Police report. According to Capt. Steve McCarthy, 49-year-old borough resident and hospital...

The planning board advanced the idea of a high-density transit village to be built near the Red Bank rail station. Below, homeowner Neil Spencer reviews a zone map with engineer Catherine Britell while his wife, Wendy, addresses the board. (Click...

Planner Paul Szymanski testifies on behalf of the developer about the proposed project at Thursday night's zoning board meeting. A 36-unit affordable housing project envisioned alongside a rail yard on Red Bank's West Side sailed to unanimous approval by the...

In a reprise of one of his nastiest fights as a member of the Red Bank Council, John Curley says that "scumbags" and "vermin" associated with former Mayor Ed McKenna are trying to undermine his candidacy for Monmouth County Freeholder...

Here's a recap of Monday night's Red Bank Borough Council meeting. (Follow along with the agenda, if you like.) • Mayor Pasquale Menna accepted a $162,975 dividend payment to the borough from the Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund, the shared-services...

Bill Meyer says the borough shouldn't negotiate over the former borough hall until it's investigated the sale to Kids Bridge eight years ago. Below right: a copy of a business entity status report he says raises questions about the deal....

Driving Mrs. Burry: John Curley and his running mate, as seen at Red Bank's Centennial Parade in May. For years, former Red Bank Councilman John Curley has railed against what he's called a "good old boys" way in which the...

Former Mayor Ben Nicosia was among the spotlight guests at a cocktail party Tuesday night at the Molly Pitcher Inn, where he and three other former Red Bank mayors — Dan O'Hern, Mike Arnone and Ed McKenna — were honored...

The former Anderson storage building, seen in a file photo, where Mertrovation has approvals to build 23 condos and two stores. A pair of large-scale, long-stalled development projects near the Red Bank train station cleared legal hurdles yesterday when a...

Councilman John Curley embraces Mayor Pasquale Menna after tonight's council session. With four months left to his term, firebrand Republican John Curley announced his resignation from the Red Bank Council tonight, creating the possibility that a party-chosen successor could get...

The facade of the small building next door to the theater was the last piece to go; now there's just a hole in the ground. (Facade photo courtesy of Wendy Spencer) A small, ivy-swaddled office building that stood next door...

Fireworks illuminated the Monmouth Boat Club and the Navesink River in Red Bank last night. (Click on images to enlarge) The occasion: a fundraiser for the annual KaBoom Fireworks, which needs to raise at least $175,000 to cover the cost...

Councilman and freeholder-wannabe John Curley. Several times during the bimonthly Red Bank council meeting on Monday, Mayor Pasquale Menna wryly referred to Councilman John Curley — his Republican opponent in the 2006 mayoral race — as "the future Monmouth County...

Will John Curley's firebrand personality fly with Monmouth County Republican powerbrokers? The Red Bank councilman will find out tomorrow when he goes before the party's screening committee in a bid to be one of two nominees to run for county...

Red Bank Councilman John Curley has thrown his name in for consideration by Republican powerbrokers as a potential candidate for Monmouth County Freeholder in November, Curley has confirmed to the the Hub. In the current edition, the weekly reports that...

If any one person outside of Tiffany & Co. is responsible for the jeweler's decision to open a gleaming outpost in downtown Red Bank today, it's Larry Garmany, who has a habit of making high-risk business moves that tend to...

Red Bank Democrats appear to have held their 4-2 council majority with narrow wins Tuesday by Council President Sharon Lee, who bagged a second term, and Zoning Board member Kathleen Horgan. But Democratic newcomer Ed Zipprich apparently didn't have enough...

For a guy who just turned 80, George Bowden has a lot of energy. Some of it gets steered into his passion for trying to preserve old buildings in Red Bank as chairman of the borough's Historical Preservation Commission. Some...

Usually, when a chief financial officer is in the news, you're talking crisis. Think Enron. Think WorldCom. Think Borough of Red Bank last August. That's when things kind of blew up at Borough Hall, with the disclosure that freshly-resigned CFO...

Whenever he got the chance, former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna would jet off to Ireland to play golf and maybe have a pint among village locals. McKenna's successor, Pasquale Menna, though, takes the idea of global schmoozing to literally...